About the Authors

Mark Jacob, deputy metro editor at the Chicago Tribune, was part of the team that won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism. He is co-author of the newspaper’s “10 Things You Might Not Know” feature. He has co-written four other books. Jacob’s articles have been published in Library Quarterly, Chicago magazine, and Chicago History magazine. His short fiction has appeared in the literary magazines Other Voices, Pikestaff Forum, Samsara, and Minnesota Review. He has served as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s Medill Graduate School of Journalism. Information on a previous book, What the Great Ate, can be found at whatthegreatate.org

Stephen H. Case is managing director and general counsel of Emerald Development Managers LP, which provides equity capital for project finance transactions. From 2009 to 2011, he also was chairman of the board of Motors Liquidation Company, the non-government-owned remnant of General Motors Corporation. Case served for fourteen years on the boards of trustees of Columbia University and New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has served as secretary of the board of trustees of Glimmerglass Opera Company near Cooperstown, New York, and is a trustee of the American Revolution Center in Philadelphia. From 1975 to 2004 he was a partner in the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Case has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. To satisfy his personal curiosity, Case has made himself an expert in the Peggy Shippen story, reading all available histories that examine her story and tracking down Peggy’s letters at various repositories of historical manuscript.

Photograph of Stephen H. Case © New York Headshots

A team of research assistants was vital to this book. They are:

Andrea Meyer (M.A., New York University and Long Island University)

Stephanie Schmeling (M.A., New York University)

Julianna Monjeau (M.A., New York University)

Marie Elizabeth Stango (doctoral candidate, University of Michigan)